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ance of one from a plant of Aspidiuwm Noveboracense. 
Its lower pinnae, however, were more like those of A. 
Thelypteris, but broader, ovate, acuminate and inflexed. 
The venation was that of Nove[boracense]. 
At his invitation, I accompanied him to the locality. 
We found but few ferns having fronds of this peculiar 
character and these not well grown, compared with 
many which I afterward found. A few days later, Mr. 
Swasey made another trip in quest of the fern, this time 
going to Salisbury. He returned with some finely grown 
fronds which he brought to me for examination. These 
fronds had the same general characteristics as those he 
got at the ‘‘Pines,”’ but all more intensified, so to speak. 
We discussed the fern on several occasions and I re-: 
member particularly that I once asked Mr. Swasey 
whether he thought the fern most like Thelypteris or 
Nove (as we used to term it.) He answered that he 
thought it most like Nove despite the general outline of 
its fronds. He said that he considered it to be a variety 
of Nove and I at the time coincided with his opinion. 
You will understand from Mr. Davenport’s article in 
Garden and Forest Vol. [X, that terming this fern a va- 
riety of Noveboracense was a long step in advance. Mr. 
Davenport in the article referred to gives several instan- 
ces where the fern had already been collected and re- 
ferred to A. Thelypteris, once indeed by himself. Prof. 
Eaton also gave me the impression that he considered 
the fern to be a form of Thelypteris. . . . 
I became much interested in the case, and began mak- 
ing excursions into the surrounding country in search 
of the fern. I found it in some cases growing by the 
acre, sometimes to the exclusion of any other species. I 
found too that when growing in localities where the trees 
had been cut away, thus exposing it to the direct rays 
of the sun, the fern took on the exact appearance of the 
narrow form of Asplenium Filiz-foemina with condup- 
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